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X-Men #26 Spoilers

Spoilers: Rachel, Pylocke and Monet manage to reach the surface, where they reunite with Storm. The rock monster wakes up and heads to the emergency response center. Gambit stops it from injuring the civilians nearby. Rachel tries to reason with the rock monster telepathically, but fails. Jubilee arrives aboard the X-jet in time to catch Rachel from falling. Psylocke uses her telekinesis to bring the X-jet to the ground safely. While Rachel links herself with the rock giant’s consciousness, Monet goes through it and Storm summons lightning to destroy it once and for all. Jubilee brings one piece of rock back to the school. Back at the school, Beast deduces Krakoa was sick because it was created in the same manner as the rock giant. Storm tells Jubilee she saw Wolverine down the caves and hugs her. Afterwards, Jubilee brings the piece of rock to Krakoa as a gift – an imprint of memory, life after death.

*This is the last issue featuring Earth 616 Psylocke for the time being.

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X-Men #26

Writer: G. Willow Wilson

Art by: Roland Boschi

Cover by: Terry Dodson

The Story:

Investigating mysterious natural phenomena in the Blackrock Desert, the X-Men have discovered something monstrous that has ties to their own past. Reliving history, can the X-Men find a way to win the day this time around or are they doomed to make the same painful mistakes?

In Stores: April 29, 2015

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X-Men #25 Spoilers

Spoilers: Monet keeps fighting monster-like creatures within the cave, when Jubilee contacts her and tells about Beast's findings concerning the Kree. Monet orders Jubilee to head to New Attilan and seek Medusa for explanations. Monet tries to get back to Rachel and Psylocke but ends up slipping; rocks falling all over her. M daydreams of her family; her mother telling her words of strenght and encouragement. In New Attilan, Medusa tells Jubilee that the Kree haven't run any experiments in Earth in thousands of years. Monet manages to contact Rachel telepathically. Rachel tells her she needs to tap into both M and Psylocke's TK abilities to lift heavy stuff. While the three of them are connected, they realize the place has a memory: in 1944, a sort of detonation carried out by humans made that particular place as unstable as it is.

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X-Men #25

Writer: G. Willow Wilson

Art by: Roland Boschi

Cover by: Jorge Molina

The Story:

• As natural phenomena tear the Black Rock Desert apart—with Storm stuck deep in the Earth at the epicenter—the X-Men race to find answers and save their teammate!

• And while some of the team follow a lead that takes them to the Inhuman Queen MEDUSA, Psylocke makes an EXPLOSIVE discovery of her own…

In Stores: March 4, 2015

X-Men #25 Variant Cover by Jim Cheung

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X-Men #24 Spoilers

Spoilers: Psylocke, Rachel and Monet climb down 40 feet underground and are ambushed by strange creatures. Rachel points out they’re linked like a hive mind. The X-Men fight the monster, but one of them hits Betsy’s arm pretty hard. Psylocke then raises a telekinetic shield around them. Betsy decides to psychically dampen her own pain receptors and tells the others they’ll fight their way to the opening on the other side of the cave. The girls manage to take down the creatures and reach the opening. Rachel senses everything in the cavern is connected, even the fungi. Suddenly, they are attacked by a much larger creature. Back at the Jean Grey School, Beast tells Jubilee that he found a certain amount of interstellar hydrogen in Krakoa’s sample. Jubilee thinks this is not a coincidence and leaves the school. Meanwhile, Storm is still struggling to find a way out, fighting with her claustrophobia. Back to the X-Men, Rachel senses the whole place is an experiment gone wrong while Psylocke comes across Kree armor. They deduce the aliens are to blame. Betsy’s condition worsens and Monet decides to take matters into her own hands.

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X-Men #24
Writer: G. Willow Wilson
Art by: Roland Boschi
Cover by: Terry Dodson

The Story:
• Trapped deep underground in the sinkhole that mysteriously appeared in the middle of the Black Rock Desert, STORM battles her claustrophobia while trying to find answers.
• Meanwhile, her teammates above ground discover that the phenomenon has ties to old enemies…

In Stores: February 11, 2015

X-Men #25 Variant Cover by Jim Cheung (Pencils)

X-Solicits for April 2015

X-Men #26 Writer: G. Willow Wilson Art by: Roland Boschi Cover by: Terry Dodson • The conclusion of Ms. Marvel creator G. Willow Wilson’s first X-Men tale, “The Burning World”! • Investigating mysterious natural phenomena in the Blackrock Desert, the X-Men have discovered something monstrous that has ties to their own past. • Reliving history, can the X-Men find a way to win the day this time around or are they doomed to make the same painful mistakes?

Rachel and Miles X-Plain the X-Men with G. Willow Wilson

Art by David Wynne. Prints available until 1/25/2015 in the shop, or contact David for the original.

X-Plain the X-Men: G. Willow Wilson joins Rachel and Miles' podcast to talk abour her new run on X-Men, comic books and writing. Listen and download the interview here.

Who else is on the team? Psylocke!

Wilson: Psylocke was one character I had to do a lot of background research on because I got into the X-Men at the end of the Claremont era… I religiously watched the Fox Kids cartoon…. So Psylocke was kind of a new one on me. I had to take a look at her history and get a sense of her. There’s opportunity there to do some really deep tissue massage. She’s one of these characters that occupy a body that is not her original body. There are some very interesting things that are kind of problematic to go along with that because her adopted body is of an Asian woman, but she’s originally British. She’s another one I went very conservative with. I didn’t really do anything to her, but if I was going to be on this book for longer, I might’ve put her back in her original body.

Do you see [Psylocke’s addiction to killing] as more of a flash in the pan that’s currently affecting her or something that’s becoming more core of who she is?

Wilson: Each of the four issues is more or less from the point of view of a single character. In Psylocke’s voice over issue, we get to see into her head and we watch her think about where she fits into the power dynamic and how she sees her role. Her powerset as it stands is one of the more destructive ones. Psylocke with her psy-blades not only has the most obviously violent powerset, but also the most disturbing because these are not real weapons. They’re specifically for the inflicting of pain. I don’t go too deep on the psychology, but I do look at what she sees the role of that with regard to her position in the X-Men. We see that she has a very good idea of what the frontlines are in the team and what she has to do in her mind to fill those in. I think you can do a really interesting Psylocke stand-alone book that is almost like Punisher and get really into that stuff.

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X-Men #23 Spoilers

Spoilers: At the Burning Man-style festival in the Black Rock Desert, Gambit offers dubious massages to the girls when a supercell hits the place. Gambit calls the Jean Grey School and asks Jubilee to have Storm send all her team. Jubilee notices that Kid Krakoa seems sick. Afterwards, Storm’s team arrives in the desert and learns that 23 people were killed already. Storm orders the girls to scout the perimeter and decides to deal with the supercell on her own. Storm uses lightning to purify it, but charging the air with electricity set it on fire. Psylocke tries to reach Storm but it’s useless. Storm tells Rachel to lead the girls and reveals the supercell acts as if it is sentient. Ororo tries to smother the storm, but it backfires and she ends up in a hole deep underground. Storm has claustrophobia and hallucinates of Wolverine, who tells her to calm down and fix the storm the way it wants to be fixed, and not the way Ororo wants to fix it. With not enough room to fly and little air, Ororo starts climbing toward the light. Back at the School, Beast deduces that Krakoa is reacting something happening to the larger ecosystem as an illness. Meanwhile, Psylocke, Rachel and Monet notice that Storm funneled the supercell into the crater, which came down on top of her, leaving her trapped under the rubble and decide to go after her.

X-Position: G. Willow Wilson

CBR: G. Willow Wilson joins us for the first time here at X-Position and answers your questions about everything ranging from Storm's power set to Monet's religion and Rachel Grey's headspace.

Which relationships between Storm, Rachel, Psylocke, M and Jubilee do you find the most compelling to write?

Wilson: They're all so OP [overpowered] that it's actually quite difficult to find a balance between them. I say this with great affection. That's why I've essentially buried them underground -- put them in a place where their powers are of limited use. That way we get to focus on the relationships, the tensions -- which arise when you have several natural leaders in one group -- the affections, the physicality of a group of women who spend their time fighting side by side. I found the Rachel-Storm tension set up by [original "X-Men" writer] Brian Wood interesting, so I explore that a little. Also Monet's temper, her forthrightness, against Psylocke's natural tough aloofness. Lots of interesting stuff.

How long do you plan on staying on the book? Please let it be for a while!

Wilson: Aww! Only four issues. But then I move on to a brand new book that I can't talk about except to say that if you like this particular X-Team, you will like the new book. And if you don't like this particular X-Team, you will like the new book anyway.

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X-Men #23

Writer: G. Willow Wilson

Art by: Roland Boschi

Cover by: Terry Dodson

The Story:

"THE BURNING WORLD" PART 1!

• The start of a brand new story penned by MS. MARVEL creator G. WILLOW WILSON!

• When a sinkhole appears under mysterious circumstances in the middle of the Black Rock Desert, the X-Men go to investigate...

• But little do they suspect that the phenomenon has connections to old allies...and enemies!

In Stores: January 7, 2015

X-Men Solicits for March 2015

	X-Men #25 Writer: G. Willow Wilson Art by: Roland Boschi Cover by: Jorje Molina Variant Cover by: TBA • As natural phenomena tear the Black Rock Desert apart—with Storm stuck deep in the Earth at the epicenter—the X-Men race to find answers and save their teammate! • And while some of the team follow a lead that takes them to the Inhuman Queen MEDUSA, Psylocke makes an EXPLOSIVE discovery of her own…
	Nightcrawler #12 Writer: Chris Claremont Art & Cover by: Todd Nauck • Cast out of Heaven, Nightcrawler believed that he was sent back to Earth because his work just wasn’t yet finished. • In this issue—the finale of Chris Claremont and Todd Nauck’s uninterrupted NIGHTCRAWLER saga—he may just finish it.

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